Yar’Adua: Lost but found

ShareBy Reuben Abati
“HALLELUYAH oh. Somebody shout halle-lu-yah o. Ha-le-ha-le-hale… I praise the Lord o…ha-le. “Somebody, e yin oluwa logo hale…”
“What’s the matter with you?”: You don drink?”
“Yes o. I am drunk with joy. Halle-hale-halle…, “halleluyah, halle…”
“I have been telling you. Take it easy with the bottle. What a man eats is his path to the [...]

January 16, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Reuben Abati  Comments

What’s God Got to Do with It?

Shareby Ijeoma Nwogwugwu
Ever since the United States listed 14 countries, including Nigeria, which it perceives as either “sponsors of terrorism” or “countries of interest”, a lot has been said and written locally and overseas in reaction to the development. Of particular interest are those reactions from the Nigerian citizenry and officials in government. The general [...]

January 11, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Ijeoma Nwogwugwu  Comments

We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

Shareby Simon Kolawole
A young Nigerian boy, named Farouk, went to the UK to study engineering. The chap started attending mosques where radical preachers, rather than concentrate on propagating Islam and exhorting Muslims to love their neighbours, spend most of the time denouncing the West and the Great Satan (commonly known as the US). UK did [...]

January 10, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Simon Kolawole  Comments

My Heart Goes out to Farouk

Shareby Simon Kolawole
Let’s briefly discuss the story of a young, independent boy with religious zeal and a fertile mind, delicately torn between the two worlds of extremism and liberalism. No, I’m not talking about Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab. I’m talking about myself. I embraced the Christian faith at the age of 20 during my national youth [...]

January 4, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments


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